agony

[ag·o·ny]

The noun agony means acute pain either mental or physical, but people often use the word hyperbolically: "This paper cut is agony."

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Violent contest or striving.

Noun
intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned"

Noun
a state of acute pain

n.
Violent contest or striving.

n.
Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

n.
Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

n.
The last struggle of life; death struggle.

Agony

Ag"o*ny , n.; pl. Agonies (). [L. agonia, Gr. , orig. a contest, fr. : cf. F. agonie. See Agon.] 1. Violent contest or striving.

The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations.

2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.

Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.

3. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.

With cries and agonies of wild delight.

4. The last struggle of life; death struggle. Syn. -- Anguish; torment; throe; distress; pangs; suffering. -- Agony, Anguish, Pang. These words agree in expressing extreme pain of body or mind. Agony denotes acute and permanent pain, usually of the whole system., and often producing contortions. Anguish denotes severe pressure, and, considered as bodily suffering, is more commonly local (as anguish of a wound), thus differing from agony. A pang is a paroxysm of excruciating pain. It is severe and transient. The agonies or pangs of remorse; the anguish of a wounded conscience. "Oh, sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride!" Dryden.

Violent contest or striving.

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Usage Examples

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

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Other Usage Examples

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.